Honore de Balzac Quotes about Soul

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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Honore de Balzac

Hate, Hatred, Soul

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Sea, Soul

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Honore de Balzac

Soul, Literature, Habit

"The Vicar of Tours". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1832.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Honore de Balzac

Joy, Soul, Taste

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Honore de Balzac

Soul, Virtue, Lofty

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac

Soul, Literature, Virtue

Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

Honore de Balzac

Space, Soul, Wells

All we are is in the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Soul

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Honore de Balzac

Voice, Soul, Desert

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Soul, Sensuality

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Honore de Balzac

Punishment, Expectations, Soul

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

Honore de Balzac

Soul, Sorrow, Bed